'Alec, who is a man of many parts, never wants for an audience when at the season's end he recites his own composition, the "Umpire's Lament", two stanzas from which run like this:' - In Sun & Shadow by Dennis Compton
-Reading from a book found in a doorway in Surrey, England. On top of a reddish upholstered chair is a small library with a handwritten note attached; 'Please Take'.